No one wants to live forever if it means becoming increasingly decrepit..
It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'.
Living rationally and authentically does not mean that you map out your future by thinking carefully about what it would be like if you chose one pat….
Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others….
With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create..
The completion of a rigorous course in mathematics - it is not even necessary that the student does well in such a course - appears to be an excellen….
Well, possibly," I said, feeling my lips twitch again. "But maybe first you would tell us why you chose to manifest yourself in the form of Shirley T….
Had you told me 20 years ago this would be my life, I'd have gone "What?" and then stuck out my tongue to all the girls that were mean to me..
Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource..
Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, ….
Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gap….
there does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow that we all know, like illness and poverty and dea….
American press, like the press in many countries, acts like a cheerleader to our government rather than a critical observer. This is especially true,….
I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me..
Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier m….
Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life ….
Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered..
It is hidden but always present..
If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pr….
And yet, she knew she could be..
The fact that equities are being sold down, despite the lowest interest rates in recent history, simply means that the market doesn't see growth ahea….